Tests Reveal Poison in Nearly All Campbell's Soup
Published November 04, 2009 @ 01:16PM PT
The food processing world is reeling right now one day after a shocking new series of tests released by Consumer Reports revealed that many leading brands of canned foods contain Bisphenol A (BPA)—a toxic chemical linked to health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health problems.
BPA is used in the lining of cans and the toxin leaches from the lining into the food. According to Consumer Reports just a couple of servings of canned food can exceed scientific limits on daily exposure for children.
The federal government is currently studying the dangers of BPA and advocates are calling on the FDA to ban the use of BPA in food and beverage packaging by the end of the year. Companies in other industries, including Wal-Mart, Target, Nalgene, and Babies R Us have already made commitments to stop using BPA.
The food industry, however, is fighting hard to stop any government regulation. They say it is too logistically complicated to move away from BPA-lined cans. And it is true that right now there isn’t a good way to produce cans without BPA. But alternative packaging does exist. You may have heard of glass, to take just one example. Or, given how much mind-blowing chemical science goes into the production of most packaged foods, with a shift in research spending the manufacturers could probably devise a technological solution.
While more comprehensive government intervention is ultimately important, right now the companies that produce the food we feed our children could choose to be supportive partners in moving past the use of BPA.
That’s why we’ve just started a petition asking Campbell’s, the largest canned soup manufacturer, to live up to its new “nourishing people's lives everywhere, every day” slogan and lead this industry move away from the use of BPA laden packaging.
When large companies take action on their own they often not only lead their competitors to follow suit, they make is much easier for the government to craft thoughtful and effective regulations to help keep us all safe. Campbell’s, because of it’s wholesome brand and industry-leader status, is in the perfect position to have a huge impact by taking the proactive step of simply committing to phasing out BPA in their products.
So if you want to do something right now to help end the use of BPA in food packaging, start by sending a letter to Campbell’s asking them to get the poison out of our food.
photo credit: house of sims, on flickr.
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Or you could just boycott Campbell's since their products are full of horome-laden, anti-biotic ridden meat and dairy, which is poison anyway.
Posted by m k on 11/04/2009 @ 02:52PM PT
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Are all cans made this way??
Posted by Barbara McNamara on 11/05/2009 @ 10:01AM PT
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Good question. I was going to ask the same thing.
Posted by L.S. hope on 11/05/2009 @ 11:42PM PT
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Yes, all cans are made this way. So it's not just Campbell Soup.
Posted by c s on 11/10/2009 @ 04:53AM PT
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Let us cook our soups ourselves!
Posted by sridhar das on 11/08/2009 @ 03:27AM PT
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I can't remember the last time we had any Campbell's soup. I put up a bunch of soup with the pressure canner last summer. I think we have enough to last until the garden starts producing again. There is BPA in the lids of canning jars but the food doesn't come in contact with the lid if you've left the proper headspace.
Posted by Amy Sirk on 11/11/2009 @ 04:09AM PT
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This was printed in the "Baltimore Sun" [11/12/09]:
"BPA...is commonly found in baby bottles, plastic containers, the lining of cans used for food and beverages, and dental sealants. It has been detected in the urine of 93% of Americans tested...BPA was first developed as an estrogen substitute." (So what idiot decides to put it in plastic?!?)
Basically, BPA is in just about everything.
The U.S. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health set up a new study to test the effects of BPA on Humans. The FDA is expected to release a new recommendation for BPA on Dec. 1.
Posted by Barbara McNamara on 11/13/2009 @ 09:37AM PT
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Isn't it just wonderful that we all live in a country where freedom runs so rampant that our very own government and corporations can poison us all.
Posted by marleina ward on 11/17/2009 @ 07:54PM PT
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Okay, so this may be to heavy a post to put here, but I'm putting it out here anyway for those of you who care to read it. Be like Popeye, eat up the worms & spit out the germs. If you believe it, consider yourself informed. If not...that's the beauty of choice.
Personally, I think it's a subtle ploy to kill is off. Seriously.
Please make some time to do some reading here. This is NOT science fiction. I wish it were.
When I got the email below (see what the FDA is preparing to do concerning vitamins) I got angry. This is a joke! I decided I couldn't take it any longer and to send out this informational email. Sorry Mr. President. I don't think you really care about the nature of my vitamins. (Who did he put in charge? The CEO of Baxter?)
In lieu of the recent & quite scarey fact that the American Company, Baxter, recently attempted to distribute vaccines laced with a live avian flu virus to 18 countries (something we somehow missed on our 6 o'clock news...being a tad bit sarcastic here), I highly doubt that our government is trying to "protect us" from our vitamins. (same company they put in charge now of the new swine flu shots...thanks but no thanks!)
HERE'S THE SCAREY EMAIL I RECEIVED.
The Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) declares dietary supplements to be products intended to supplement the diet. But the FDA contends DSHEA severely limits the FDA in regulating a growing industry. A recently issued report from the General Accounting Office claims the FDA does not have the resources to adequately regulate dietary supplements. The GAO report appears to be part of an orchestrated effort to soften the public u
FDA One Step Away From Declaring Dietary Supplements Drugs
President Barack Obama has appointed two experts, one in food the other in drugs, to head up the soon to be reorganized Food & Drug Administration in preparation for an agency split that would separate the FDA into two - one agency to oversee foods and the other to regulate drugs. But just exactly where does that leave dietary supplements?
Unlike drugs which must be approved for safety and efficacy before entering the market, dietary supplements marketed before 1994 are presumed to be safe. FDA must demonstrate that a product presents a significant or unreasonable risk to the public to get it off the market. But that may change.
An ominous sign of things to come - the FDA just classified a form of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) as a new drug (Pyridorin, Biostratum).
Despite recent outbreaks of foodborne disease (Salmonella in peanuts) and approval of deadly or problematic drugs (recently Vioxx, Seroquel, many others) compared against few if any reported deaths in the newly implemented Adverse Event Reporting for dietary supplements, the Federal government is aiming its regulatory muscle at vitamin, mineral and herbal pills.
Despite the fact that dietary supplements are far safer than table salt, aspirin, vaccines and many FDA-approved drugs, they are being demonized. Year after year, surveys conducted by poison control centers show dietary supplements to be the safest products of all.
In a misdirection, it appears food supplements are being mischaracterized as potentially dangerous and in need of greater regulatory oversight. This leads to the possibility of FDA placing supplements under the same regulatory body that oversees drugs.
The FDA appears to be covering for the sins of the drug companies, which is pushing for faster approval of new drugs, which led to the Vioxx fiasco (it is estimated 20,000 Americans died prematurely from taking this anti-inflammatory drug that should have never been approved by the FDA). Vioxx, if you recall, was touted as being safer than other anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and aspirin.
Just recently it was revealed that salespeople for a U.S. drug company told doctors that an anti-psychotic drug (Seroquel- $4.45 billion in sales 2008) didn't cause diabetes more than two years after the drug maker warned physicians in Japan of possible links to the disease. Twelve serious cases (including 1 death) of hyperglycaemia, diabetic ketoacidosis and diabetic coma here causally linked with the drug. What penalties a drug company will receive from the FDA for this type of apparent misdeed is unknown.
Massive efforts have been taken to convince the public to be wary of dietary supplements. Just when DSHEA was being deliberated for passage in Congress in October of 1994, suddenly a report was published in New England Journal of Medicine claiming beta carotene pills increased the risk of death among smokers in Finland. But examination of the published paper showed beta carotene hardly increased mortality rates at all (by less than 1%).
For years the FDA drug its feet in publishing Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for the dietary supplement industry, while pointing fingers at and sanctioning supplement makers who made marginal quality products, often mislabeled for dosage or for making false advertising claims. Only recently has the FDA completed GMP guidelines for food supplements.
In 2006 the FDA drew fire when it declared tart cherry supplements to be "new drugs" because manufacturers claimed their products had potent anti-inflammatory properties. Another agency of the government, the US Department of Agriculture, published a study showing tart cherry extract is as effective as ibuprofen in reducing inflammation. Ibuprofen can cause gastric problems that can lead to bleeding ulcers and even death. Tart cherry extract has no reported side effects. In this manner the FDA restricts free speech and the public is deprived of learning ways to stay healthy naturally and practice self care.
In 1994 Americans wrote more letters to Congress to maintain access to dietary supplements than on any other piece of legislation to date.
Imagine you are on a cruise ship where people are getting sick from Norovirus in contaminated shellfish, and the ship's doctor is dispensing poorly-made sea-sick medicine that is making people ill as well, and the captain overlooks these problems, declares he doesn't have enough authority over people taking vitamin pills below-decks and demands everybody dump their vitamin pills overboard. This is what is going on at the FDA today.
For the time being supplements are still available and you can find them at www.LifespanNutrition.com
***END OF EMAIL***
You hadn't heard about any of this? Gotta read! If you stick your head in the sand and pretend it's not happening, that's another option for you.
But if you want to be informed, please read here:
http://www.infowars.com/%E2%80%98accidental%E2%80%99-contamination-of-vaccine-with-live-avian-flu-virus-virtually-impossible/
If not caught, a PANDEMIC could have been in full swing far before the swine flu ever hit. You say yes, but it was caught. Yes it was. This time.
This is not paranoia on my part. These are just the facts.
Why are we allowing these things to go unnoticed? We should be outraged by all of this! We are uninformed. Dumbed down. A nation who is more concerned about what Brittany Spears is up to than our own Govt. You won't see this on the front page of Comcast, that's for certain!
Conspiracy or Fact? Do a search on these 3 topics (before your rights to do so are curtailed and while you still can) and tell me what you find? Are they trying to decrease the surplus population? This plan has been in place for ages. It is written on our very own Georgia Guidestones. Most are completely unaware it exists. I know I was.
*UN Agenda 21
*UN Treaty on Biological Diversity
*Georgia Guidestones (see this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones)
This is what is written on one of them:
MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000
IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE
Can it be more clear? How do you think they're planning on doing this?
Who is behind all of this? What can we do?
Be informed.
Prepare
Watch & Pray.
While we've been happily sitting around our televisions sipping our favorite beverage & eating our favorite snack food, watching our favorite reality TV show, the trap is being set here. There is an agenda. It's been set & in place for quite some time. There is a small group of people, called the "Eliteists" of this world. They are those who have been duped into believing that they and their bloodline are the only ones who are worthy to be here. They are the ones who are in power & ultimately control the world through their $$$. However, they are led by the enemy of their soul. The devil is not some guy in red with a pitchfork who goes around trying to make you swear. He and his armies of fallen angels have been working on these plans for quite sometime. They do nothing but study us day & night.
If you read about the 3 things I have listed above, you will be able to see that what I am saying is true. They want to decrease the "meat eating population" to 1/3. Plaguing us with a pandemic would be one way of doing this. In my opinion, it is demonic. It is so subtle. The greatest con of all is where you don't even know you're being conned. Even the "elite" are being conned though. The trap door is about to slam shut.
Get ready brothers & sisters. This ride could get a bit bumpy. Get your house in order. Read. Be informed. As Americans we've become complacent, fat & sassy. This generation has never had to experience what is about to come upon us. Look up, your redemption draweth nigh. If you listen closely, you can here the footsteps of our Lord. He's on His way back. Come quickly Lord Jesus.
Save us from the enemy's trap.
Posted by Susie Lee on 11/19/2009 @ 07:46AM PT
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